Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots? [PDF]
In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows ...
Serena Marchesi +7 more
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The Intentional Stance Test-2: How to Measure the Tendency to Adopt Intentional Stance Towards Robots [PDF]
In human-robot interactions, people tend to attribute to robots mental states such as intentions or desires, in order to make sense of their behaviour. This cognitive strategy is termed “intentional stance”. Adopting the intentional stance influences how
Nicolas Spatola +2 more
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Re-imaging the intentional stance. [PDF]
The commonly used paradigm to investigate Dennet's ‘intentional stance’ compares neural activation when participants compete with a human versus a computer. This paradigm confounds whether the opponent is natural or artificial and whether it is intentional or an automaton. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study is, to our knowledge, the first
Abu-Akel AM +3 more
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Intentional or Designed? The Impact of Stance Attribution on Cognitive Processing of Generative AI Service Failures [PDF]
Background: With the rapid expansion of the generative AI market, conducting in-depth research on cognitive conflicts in human–computer interaction is crucial for optimizing user experience and improving the quality of interactions with AI systems ...
Dong Lv +5 more
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Two Improvements to the Intentional Stance Theory: Hutto and Satne on Naturalizing Content. [PDF]
Slors M.
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Social robots and the intentional stance [PDF]
Abstract Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stance can help us to resolve this puzzle, allowing us to further our understanding of social ...
Walter Veit, Heather Browning
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Meaningful inclusion of people with dementia in interview research: adopting the “intentional stance” [PDF]
Engaging people living with dementia in interview research presents unique ethical, methodological, and practical challenges. In recent years there is an increased recognition of the importance and value of meaningfully including people with dementia in ...
Emma O’Shea +2 more
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Homunculi, the mereological fallacy and crypto-dualism. Two dilemmas for the intentional stance
Neuroscientist Maxwell Bennett and philosopher Peter Hacker defend the need to eradicate the mereological fallacy of cognitive neuroscience. This fallacy attributes to the parts of an animal psychological predicates that make sense only when applied to ...
Gloria del Carmen Balderas Rosas
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Understanding the Unforeseen via the Intentional Stance [PDF]
We present an architecture and system for understanding novel behaviors of an observed agent. The two main features of our approach are the adoption of Dennett's intentional stance and analogical reasoning as one of the main computational mechanisms for understanding unforeseen experiences.
Stephanie Stacy +4 more
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Realism, Instrumentalism, and the Intentional Stance* [PDF]
One of Dennett's principal arguments for an instrumentalistic construal of intentional attributions (e.g., attributions of belief, etc.) is that such attributions are environment relative. I argue that one can and should adopt a realist perspective toward such attributions, but accommodate their environmental relativity by treating intentional ...
William Bechtel
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